 I thought on hardware news. Okay, Lady data this week. Yeah. So 6.2 0 beta 3 is released. We're doing a bunch of betas, but we're also just fixing so much stuff. We added the second USB serial. So if you want to have like a non rebel serial port, we've added that we've added some bitmap tool. Thank you so much for the community for adding these contributions. I've done a lot of display IO work. I've also seen a lot of stuff happen with label presence port bug fixes in ESP 32 as to an RP 2040. Those are going through a lot of churn. We're even planning our next beta already because we're fixing so many bugs and adding so much stuff. So, you know, keep thank you everybody for testing the latest builds. We're getting so many more contributors and it's really awesome to see people coming in and saying, here's what I want circuit pipeline to do and giving us code to do it or reviewing code or bug fixing or bug reporting. It's a team effort. And if you have an RP 2040 in some form like a Pico or now a feather, the good news is you can get lots of updates. There's lots of enhancements, lots of fixes and more. I did see a discussion on Twitter, which is never really a good idea. I don't even know why you're just starting with that. But someone was saying, they were trying to compare like circuit python and micro python and the two have different goals. But one of the things that someone said is like, oh, there's always a lot of activity going on in circuit python land because we're doing a lot of updates and we're supporting a lot of hardware. So I'll say this. And that's good. There's there's always trade offs and the way that we're doing circuit python is you want the easiest and the latest and greatest hardware support for everything. So that's why micro python, for instance, one of the things that people do is they're making if they're making hardware for it, they'll fork their version to fork micro python. And that's like frozen in time for their thing. And then they're not doing any more updates on it. We're circuit python. We're trying to get as many boards as possible that support circuit python that support all these libraries that support all the hardware and grow that ecosystem. So you get any time you're putting circuit python on something that supports it, you're getting all the latest, the latest. I mean, it's good. We're fixing a lot of bugs. I mean, people are saying like, this doesn't work. That doesn't work. And we actually go and fix it. You know, we also added like MP3 support today, which is really cool. Like that's, you know, that's a PR. And so that will be part of the next beta release. It's, it's just, you know, we, you know, Scott, who is the project lead made the decision really early. And I've sort of, you know, been, been reluctantly, but now enthusiastically excited, you know, interested in his decision, which is make it's better to have lots of changes. If it means a development cycle keeps going than to let the project stagnate because people are, and this is kind of true. Contributors are attracted to projects that have contributors. You know, if, if I go to, look, it's true. If I go to a GitHub repo and I haven't seen any, you know, events occurring, any pull requests or issues closed in the last five years, I'm going to assume the project's dead. Right. And so if you see like, wow, there's a lot of activity, people are contributing and responding and moving. I think that will attract people who want to have their country contributions merged in and developed on it. I think the circuit python team does that really well. The hardware that you have gets tons of, you know, free updates forever. If it supports circuit python, every time there's an update to circuit python, you get new features. Yeah. So a new hardware supported. So I just wanted to like, you know, because we have this section that we talked about python on hardware. And it's a new beta release. This is really good news because if you like things like the Pico and the RP, any of the 2040 stuff, any of the feathers or, you know, Sparkman has their version of a feather and it's sort of sports circuit python. Like every, there's so many things you get with this now that we think that we're going to keep doing this, like the more new features and the more hardware supported, the better. And keeping that vibe of it's as easy as possible. And as the RP 2040 launch, one of the things that we looked at is, so when people want to do something fast and easy and learn from what are they using, they're using circuit python. So with that being said, the feather RP 2040 is out. This is one of the easiest ways to explore this new chip from Raspberry Pi and then also use circuit python. And then you get the full feather ecosystem. Yes. And stem and QT plugin and a megabytes of flash. Yeah. It's still, you know, this, I don't want to call it beta. I'm pretty sure the hardware is good to go. But, you know, I'm always interested people, if you find any weirdnesses with it, open up issues or let us know in the community. Because I'm, you know, this is our first board with this chip. And the first board of every chip is always kind of where we're like, Oh, hey, look at that. We didn't realize, you know, XYZ and now we do. So I'm doing this board definitely helped me design the itsy bitsy and QT Pi had to do revision of each because of things that I learned. And just to bring this back. So if you did a bunch of circuit python work on the NF and Nordic NRF 52 840, that code, you know, besides the Bluetooth part works on a RP 20 40. Yeah. So like this is PWM is actually the same thing. So the code that does the audio over PWM is the same. I mean, we had to adapt it for the hardware. But, you know, that was first introduced on the NRF 52 840. And now it's available on this chip too. So we have, I haven't counted the number of chipsets, but it's probably six or six. Well, the STM F4. I mean, that's like hundreds of different chips, right? Because there's like a bunch of them. But, you know, families, I think we support a good like eight, eight families of chips. Yeah. And then there's things like the SP 32 S2 and ESP 32 C. Well, the C three, we're probably not going to support quite yet. The S3 will support. I think there's actually a PR for the S3. So like, yeah, we're, we're moving along. Circuit Python was on Tom's podcast. Scott was on it. He blew their minds. Talked to Les, who he just sent a feather over in the UK. And Scott also talked about maybe running Circuit Python directly on a Raspberry Pi one day. Python 310086 is available for testing. It's big news if you're into Python. Deep Dive with Scott is this Friday. News around the web. The projects. This is getting started. So many Pico's. So Pipeco, Neopixel LEDs. Keyboards and bananas. Yeah. And, you know, the other, the other thing, a lot of folks are exploring Mo because it's an easy way to do things with Circuit Python and these boards. More QT Pi projects. Braincraft running Raspberry Pi Pico using Pi to zero adapter. An adapter for a Pi Pico on a feather wing. Look at this Q keyboard. Yeah. This is a Raspberry Pi Pico on Circuit Python. This is a keyboard. Again, this is what we see happening. If you want to do a keyboard and you have a Pico, the easiest way to do it right now and to build on top of an expanded that's open and you just get all the support is it's been Circuit Python. So we're happy to see that getting out there. Here's a light sensor. This is using MicroPython. This is a feather weighing little servo. Oh, that's the dynamic cell. Yeah. And then Scott is also, Scott's been doing rounds. Simple electronics podcast number 14. And then this is large. Yeah. This is a little round display. The tab I just showed on the show and tell. Yeah. And here's another Pico with a display. Look, that's going to work great with Circuit Python. Great display support. So as you can tell, there's a theme. If you really like keyboards and you really like displays and you really have really good native display support for Circuit Python, believe me, it's like it's not going to be as low level, but the high level stuff is amazing. I mean, you can have objects in front of other objects and do clipping and bitmaps and beautiful fonts, all the stuff which is a lot harder than you'd think actually getting good font support. But it's all in there. Yeah. And we've been working on it for years. So you'll continue to see a bunch of projects and more. There's a neat Python comic that's in there. You can see all of our guides, all of our libraries. We are up to 303, and we still have a couple more events coming up. We're sponsoring the Open Hardware Summit. I'll check them out. We just sent QT-pies. So if you're part of the Open Hardware Summit this year, the swag bag will have a QT-pie, PyCon's coming up, and more. So that is our Python and hardware news this week. Lots of stuff going on. Nice.